The elderly owner of a Cochrane St, Dunedin, property was woken as a fire took hold in her great-grandchild's bedroom, southern region fire safety officer Stuart Ide said.
A plan to run cable cars along High St could be a "small but significant" start to Dunedin preparing for the effects of peak oil, an Australian transport researcher says.
Dunedin's water pipes must be upgraded before oil shocks intensify and worldwide energy prices surge, a draft paper prepared for the city council suggests.
Australian stores have launched a new assault on Dunedin retailing.
More monitoring stations are being put close to where the Caversham highway cuts through the Glen after concerns road noise might intensify when the road is widened.
A traffic overbridge might yet cross the realigned Caversham highway to connect the Dunedin suburbs of Lookout Point and Calton Hill.
Security at the Forsyth Barr Stadium building site in Dunedin has been stepped up after intruders tampered with machinery earlier this month.
The smell of a family's burned possessions will help Dunedin people understand the devastating potential of fire.
Dunedin's biggest commuter bus companies will ask the Government to reconsider cutting travel subsidies to stave off potentially significant financial losses.
As thousands of Southerners imagine winning the $24 million Lotto Powerball draw tonight, a Balclutha supermarket worker and Lotto winner already knows what it is to be lucky.
If anyone knows what people are saying about the Dunedin City Council elections, it is an ever-chatty cabbie. Stu Oldham talks to taxi driver Keith Cron.
The smell of smoke hung in the warm breeze on Somerville St, Dunedin, as Aloma Fakava remembered a dream that foretold her family's tragedy.
A fossil-fuel-free hikoi from Waitati to Dunedin has been cut off at the pass, but a "figurative" hikoi will still go ahead.
The first train laden with milk powder which is expected to leave North Taieri this morning also carries a huge significance.
Taxi security camera footage could be televised to help nab criminals who have travelled in a cab, a University of Otago legal specialist says.
The Dunedin City Council is urgently reassessing its plans to manage buses dropping cruise ship passengers in the central city.
Sister Mary de Lourdes Campbell marked her 89th birthday yesterday with a game of mahjong and the reluctant acknowledgement she is someone special.
Hundreds of people yesterday waited patiently in a queue that stretched at least 2km along the road to Wenita Forest Products' forestry block on Mt Allan for a share of about 1000 tonnes of cut-price firewood.
Otago businesses were as busy as they looked on the eve of the GST increase.
Security will be improved at the Forsyth Barr Stadium building site in Dunedin after a series of "bizarre" intruder incidents.
